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In the Mood for Love (2000) - Critic Reviews - Page 2 of 4

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 02 Jun 2008

The most ingenious device in the story is the way Chow and Su play-act imaginary scenes between their cheating spouses…

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By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 17 Oct 2007

In the Mood for Love has novelty value, I suppose, and plenty of pretty camera moves, but it's not really a movie you can warm to…

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By Jason Gorber (520) for Film Scouts (224) on 20 Jun 2007

The performances are quietly aching, never relying on explosions to push a point home…

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By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Aug 2006

In the Mood For Love is ravishing beyond mortal words…

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By Tony Rayns (36) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Jun 2006

Every charged frame of the film pulses with the central contradiction between repression and emotional abandon; the formalism and sensuality…

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By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 29 Dec 2005

A love story told from the point of impact, at the heart, and no conventional resolution could be more profound…

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By Ken Fox (1,094) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 23 Jul 2004

It's extraordinarily sexy: The atmosphere is all cigarette smoke and Nat King Cole songs, silk suits and tight sheath dresses…

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By Judith Egerton (151) for Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (151) on 24 Jun 2004

As this lovely film moves from allegro to adagio, it never loses its pervasive sense of loneliness…

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By Greg Muskewitz (87) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 21 Feb 2004

It rivals the impact...Lost Highway [had for me], and is easily one of the best films I have ever seen…

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By Richard Corliss (1,032) for Time (1,811) on 07 Sep 2003

This enthralling, enigmatic, romantic drama from Asia's most influential auteur (Chungking Express) is an essay in appetite and inhibition…

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By Susan Tavernetti (105) for Palo Alto Weekly (965) on 19 May 2003

Frame by frame, Wong Kar-wai's mood piece represents the most sumptuous filmmaking in years…

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By Moira Sullivan (52) for Movie Magazine International (27) on 10 May 2003

Violins tactilely pull at your heartstrings and induce memories of all the unrequited love affairs or unhappy memories you ever had…

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By Beth Accomando (509) for KPBS.org (509) on 30 Mar 2003

With his spiky haircut, ever-present shades and a cigarette nestled between his fingers, Wong Kar Wai could be a poster boy for Hong Kong cool…

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By Michael Dequina (1,684) for Film Threat (5,156) on 08 Dec 2002

The emotions evoked by the bulk of the film manage to survive [a] late false note -- and for a film called In the Mood for Love, that's what…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 23 Sep 2002

Wong denies us the satisfaction of resolution, but in sharing his mastery of cinema, and his gift for conveying mood, desire and vivid emotions,…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 24 Mar 2002

For Wong, the mood for love is at best nostalgia; even when consummated, love is gone before you know it, an absence never filled…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 19 Mar 2002

Stylized, set-designed to the last hair wisp, the film is a mixture of bold devices with delicate understatement that leave a remarkable aftereffect…

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By Jeremy Heilman (393) for MovieMartyr.com (391) on 05 Mar 2002

Like Chabrol's La Ceromonie, it escalates everyday tensions until they became much more realized and pointed feelings…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 03 Mar 2002

An elegant, poetic exploration of romantic yearning, repressed emotions, and the age-old conflict between tradition-bound behavior and emotional…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for Nitrate Online (381) on 30 Oct 2001

Quiet. This might be the most accurate word to describe the elegant, perfectly composed surface of Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love…

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